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When it comes to PC gaming monitors, there’s no such thing as too fast. While conventional screens hit the 500Hz refresh mark a couple of years ago, fancy-pants OLED monitors haven’t quite reached such speeds yet. MSI intends to do so sometime in 2025, along with a couple of other OLED firsts announced before CES 2025.
That monitor is the MPG 272QR QD-OLED X50 (woof!) with its 27-inch panel and 1440p resolution, 0.03ms response time, and that blistering 500Hz refresh rate. Oddly, MSI is positioning this screen for “all the mainstream gamers out there.” Who considers themselves “mainstream” while hitting 500 frames per second at 1440p?
No price has been mentioned yet for this monitor. Other specs are pretty sparse in the announcement, but there’s a full list you can browse on this promotional page. Highlights include DisplayPort 2.1a support and USB-C with 98 watts of Power Delivery.
Elsewhere in MSI’s pre-CES press push is the MPG 272URX, a 27-inch OLED that pushes beyond the usual resolution with its 4K panel, though you’ll have to make do with “only” 240Hz of refresh. There’s also the MPG 322URX, a 32-inch 1440p design that also hits 240Hz. Both of them have support for DisplayPort 2.1a.
It’s big and it’s white! And probably very expensive. Please resist the urge to turn that into some kind of innuendo.
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The MPG 321URXW is another 32-inch model, billed as “a premium gaming monitor with a stunning silver-white design.” According to this promo page, it has a 4K resolution at 240Hz and USB-C input with 90 watts of Power Delivery, but note that the DisplayPort is the older 1.4 standard. As usual, prices and retail release dates have not been shared — I’d expect to see them by the middle of 2025.
Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer, PCWorld
Michael is a 10-year veteran of technology journalism, covering everything from Apple to ZTE. On PCWorld he’s the resident keyboard nut, always using a new one for a review and building a new mechanical board or expanding his desktop “battlestation” in his off hours. Michael’s previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he’s covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live. Michael lives in Pennsylvania where he’s always looking forward to his next kayaking trip.
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